COLLEGE STATION WOMAN KILLED IN TRUCK ACCIDENT FRIDAY

  

A College Station woman is dead following a crash that had a portion of Highway 6 closed for hours, Friday.

45-year old Teresa Ann Schwertner-Lee was pronounced dead at the scene of the wreck, near the University Drive overpass.

Schwertner-Lee was a passenger in a tractor trailer that slammed into a median of the highway.  The flatbed trailer the truck was hauling landed on top of the cab, killing Shwertner-Lee and critically injuring the driver, whose name has not been released.

According to authorities, the driver was trying to avoid hitting another semi that lost a tire on the highway.

The 18-wheeler that had the tire separate from it continued to travel southbound on Highway 6.

The north and south bound lanes of Highway 6 remained closed for several hours.